Tag: HBGary
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Barrett Brown – Communiqué from Prison 9/20/12
It is hard for me to express how much I appreciate your letter, which is the first I have received here, along with the support I’ve reportedly gotten from others so far. Before I forget, let me request that you also send a tweet of support to Jenna, @ElviraXMontana on Twitter; as my girlfriend, she…
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Activist Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During Online Video Chat
http://youtu.be/eky-q9CE_co For the second time this year, self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was raided by the FBI. The latest dramatic incident occurred late Wednesday evening while Brown and another woman identified by some as his girlfriend were participating in an online chat on TinyChat with other individuals. Two minutes into the recorded chat session, loud…
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FBI Escalates War On Anonymous
The Feds raid the home of unofficial Anonymous spokesperson Barrett Brown. They’re after his Twitter records, chat logs, IRC conversations, his computer, and apparently everything else, according to the search warrant obtained by BuzzFeed. Last month, the FBI raided the Dallas home of Barrett Brown, the journalist and unofficial spokesperson for the Internet hacktivist group…
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Dis-Info Campaign Against Journalists Who Investigate Contracting Firms
(Left) Tom Vanden Brook (on C-Span in 2010), a senior reporter for USA Today apparently targeted by a cyber-attack of misinformation and harassment. Photograph: guardiannews.com The report by USA Today in which two of the paper’s employees became targets of a widespread and dishonest online disinformation campaign immediately after making inquiring calls to several intelligence contractors with ties to…
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Hacking History: Anonymous & Wikileaks Correlated
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HBGary: A sinister cyber-surveillance scheme exposed by Anonymous
Hacked emails from security contractor HBGary Federal reveal a disturbing public-private partnership to spy on web users In February 2011, the hackers’ collective Anonymous released 70,000 emails from security contractor HBGary Federal, which revealed that CEO Aaron Barr had offered the firm’s services to mount cyber-attacks against WikiLeaks and others on behalf of corporate…